From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Faylor To: Brendan Simon Cc: CygWin32 , "Insight (GDB GUI)" Subject: Re: Canadian build of Insight Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 19:59:00 -0000 Message-id: <19990817230106.C2983@cygnus.com> References: <37B9F8F7.6188FBFC@dgs.monash.edu.au> X-SW-Source: 1999-q3/msg00052.html On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 10:06:16AM +1000, Brendan Simon wrote: >>I downloaded insight-19990802.tar.gz last night and manged to compile a >>native linux version and a native-powerpc-eabi version (ie. >>cross-debugger running on linux but targeting powerpc-eabi). Great. >> >>I tried doing a Canadian build (build=i586-linux, host=i586-cygwin32, >>target=powerpc-eabi). It eventually died complaining that it couldn't >>find termcap.h or tcap.h (one of these anyway). Now I'm not sure if I >>configured it wrong or am missing a file. I think I used the >following configure options >(--with-headers=/newlib/libc/include >>--with-newlib) which may have confused it. Do I need to use these >>options ? Does the canadian build use the header files from the native >>cross-tools directories (eg. /usr/local/gcc/powerpc-eabi/include in my >>case) ? > >James Ingham replied with: > >>Anyway, newer versions of readline use termcap, so you will have to >>have the termcap libraries in the target support for your cross >>compiler. Newer versions of Cygwin do include it (like the snapshots >>from sourceware) so you should be able to copy the libtermcap bits from >>there. There should be appropriate configury bits there as >well... Actually, the B20.1 sources should include the libtermcap directory. Are you saying that it isn't there? >I had a look on the sourceware for the new cygwin sources. I found >lots of snapshots around 4MB in size. I built my cygwin cross compiler >following Mumit Khan's howto. It said to download the Cygwin dev >sources which are around 27MB in size. I thought I needed an update of >this but there is only one on sourceware and it is quite old (the same >one that I have already got). What is the difference between the dev >sources and the other snapshot soureces ? Which ones do I need to >build an up to date cygwin package on a Linux host ? I want to be able >to build the latest Insight code. Are there any other pacages I need. >I don't really want to build on a Win32 box, but would like to know if >any extra packages are required to do this (just incase I get real >desperate). I'm not sure why you're not just downloading the prebuilt binaries from Mumit's site. It would save you a lot of time, it seems. -chris